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Salesforce.com launches 5 cloud app developer tools
The five new cloud platform services -- Appforce, Siteforce, VMforce, ISVforce and the newly acquired PaaS developer Heroku -- are all integrated in one database that runs on open standard-based API. Together they will help build real-time enterprise social and mobile apps.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 09-Dec-2010
Salesforce.com to buy PaaS developer Heroku for US$212m
Salesforce.com announces to acquire PaaS developer Heroku for its Ruby-based cloud app development platform. Ruby is used by one million developers to write next-gen apps that are social, collaborative and deliver real-time access to information across mobile devices.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 09-Dec-2010

Crowdsourcing the workforce

Australian telco Telstra uses its Salesforce Ideas service for the past year to run a Web forum called "T[ideas]" that allows all of Telstra's 30,000+ employees to submit and discuss ideas that can be voted on and eventually passed on to the upper management.
by: John Tanner, Global Technology Editor, Telecom Asia 12-Nov-2010
What vendors don't tell you about cloud computing
Chris Howard, chief researcher at Gartner Group, dispells the marketing hype that virtualization and cloud computing are the same thing. He concedes that virtualization is an enabling technology within the cloud computing platform.
by: 08-Nov-2010

Cloud vendor lock-in: who gets blacklisted?

Many companies refuse to move data to a services model until there is an easy way to migrate workloads from mixed data centers and between different cloud environments. While that level of flexibility doesn't exist quite yet, there are ways to avoid cloud lock-in.
by: Bridget Botelho, Senior News Writer, SearchCloudComputing.com 29-Oct-2010

Case Construction China plows dealer network in the cloud

In China, "construction" has become a synonym for "development" as construction sites sprawl throughout the nation minute by minute. On the supplier side, how can construction equipment providers like Case Construction China gain better visibility into its massive partner and dealer network for greater business efficiency?
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 26-Oct-2010

Salesforce.com builds data center in Tokyo

Salesforce.com announces to launch a new data center in Tokyo with NTT Communications by 2011 to speed up its cloud services delivery in Japan. Official sources in Japan estimated by 2015, the country's cloud service market would reach US$28.8 million.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 06-Oct-2010

Cloud outages: which vendor causes the biggest headaches?

When cloud services go down, the IT community takes notice. Find out what went wrong in the most high-profile cloud computing outages and how each company resolved its issues. Microsoft, Rackspace, Salesforce.com, Heroku, Terremark, Intuit and Amazon Web Services are on the watch list.
by: Steve Cimino, associate editor, SearchCloudComputing.com 24-Sep-2010

Altium steers through business spikes with on-demand CRM

For Altium, a high-technology electronics software developer that serves customers like the US space research agency NASA, there is no better way to cope with its 16-times spikes in transaction volumes in busy months than using on-demand CRM. Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium, explains how.
by: Carol Ko 01-Sep-2010

Breast cancer NGO tracks fundraising programs with Salesforce CRM

The world’s largest breast cancer organization has deployed Salesforce CRM to power its VICTORY Platform that manages fundraising activities and donor relationships.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 11-Aug-2010